| 1 in 17 does not work? What other businesses find it acceptable that 1 in 17 of the times their product is used, it fails to work? DVDs are a product that should work in any DVD-capable player.
What if your car failed to start in 1 in 17 parking spaces you used?
What if 1 in 17 CDs you bought failed to play?
What if 1 in 17 TVs purchased couldn't play video?
What if light bulbs didn't fit into 1 in 17 sockets?
Any resonsible company would pull the product from the market before there was too much negative publicity. An apology to the customers would also be appropriate.
This company, without remorse, finds it acceptable to sell an intentionally defective product. Not acceptable. |
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Duluth, GA | said by riturno:What if 1 in 17 CDs you bought failed to play? That could be lower if the CDs are protected.  |
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said by riturno:
What if light bulbs didn't fit into 1 in 17 sockets?
This mention of bulbs reminded me a situation back in the 80's in the Boston area. In a number of low-income housing projects, they had bare-bulb fixtures in all the public hallways. However, they were proprietary; the bulbs looked like ordinary Sylvania 60W's, at first glance, but the screwbase was a fraction of an inch wider in diameter. Hence, they wouldn't fit in household sockets (only the matching fixtures). Remembering that this was low-income housing, there was only one theory I could come up with as to why: They didn't want residents stealing bulbs out of the hallways when they needed them for their apartments.
However, the, "if there's a will there's a way" scenario prevails. After all the fixtures were replaced with fluorescent's, we found a whole case of these bulbs (brand new!) in a dumpster near the projects. It was discovered that we could use these with those old-fashioned socket adapters used to add two outlets. The specific type were those that were of two plastic halves riveted together (leaving a tiny gap down both sides), with the screw threads molded into the plastic. These would expand just enough to allow us to screw in those funky bulbs. |
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